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Canadian Constitutional Law #10: Ancillary Doctrine, Double Aspect Doctrine

By Erin

In this podcast we celebrate the conclusion of my memo by studying two more doctrines! The Ancillary (also called Necessarily Incidental) doctrine is sometimes used to uphold a specific provision that infringes on another government’s jurisdiction when the provision is part of a larger valid scheme. The Double Aspect Doctrine is very commonly used to allow for concurrent jurisdictions of shared legislative power between the provinces and the federal government. The double aspects doctrine is simple but very important, and we will build on it in later podcasts.

General Motors of Canada Ltd. v City National Leasing (1989)
Multiple Access ltd. v McCutcheon (1982)

Full post as published by Life of a Law Student on November 24, 2006 (boomark / email).